Balancing Student Privacy

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This does not sound as if this conversation violates FERPA because the teacher who has the student now is talking with a teacher who had the student the previous year. In the article, Balancing Student Privacy and School Safety, the author states “FERPA does not prohibit a school official from disclosing information about a student if the information is obtained through the school official’s personal knowledge or observation, and not from the student’s education records” (Dept. of Education). Of course, this is a short scenario therefore I am sure there is more to the story. I must ask who shared the knowledge of the conversation and what was their reason for telling an administrator? Where they upset over the location of the conversation

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